I am of part Native American decent but have never shown much interest in any of my heritage, due to I am from many people, a real mutt, an American.

I believe my green thumb and love of nature comes from the indigenous blood flowing inside of me. I would spend most of my time as a child in fields catching snakes and tadpoles, picking wild berries in spring and hazelnuts in the fall. I was taught about wild plants and would actually forage meals of nuts and berries where I lived many years ago. My father taught me to hunt and fish with respect to nature and the animals and I was actually given a knife to use when I was very young after given instructions on how to use it properly and safely. I used to think of myself as the “herb lady” but as you can tell from my blog, this kind of got away from me. I do only grow organic and still grow some herbs. Many died when I had my Akita who loved to pee on anything green. I think my large silver sage died of natural causes as they usually do.

Enhanced pictures taken from one of the Powwow’s held in Tecumseh Michigan years ago. I usually don’t take pictures but took a few of this one.